Judges 19:1

New Century Version

At that time Israel did not have a king. There was a Levite who lived in the faraway mountains of Ephraim. He had taken a slave woman from the city of Bethlehem in the land of Judah to live with him,

Cross References

Genesis 22:24

Also Nahor had four other sons by his slave woman Reumah. Their names were Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

Genesis 25:6

But before Abraham died, he did give gifts to the sons of his other wives, then sent them to the East to be away from Isaac.

Genesis 35:19

Rachel was buried on the road to Ephrath, a district of Bethlehem,

2 Samuel 16:22

So they put up a tent for Absalom on the roof of the palace where everyone in Israel could see it. And Absalom had sexual relations with his father’s slave women.

2 Samuel 19:5

Joab went into the king’s house and said, “Today you have shamed all your men. They saved your life and the lives of your sons, daughters, wives, and slave women.

2 Samuel 20:3

David came back to his palace in Jerusalem. He had left ten of his slave women there to take care of the palace. Now he put them in a locked house. He gave them food, but he did not have sexual relations with them. So they lived like widows until they died.

2 Samuel 3:7

Saul once had a slave woman named Rizpah, who was the daughter of Aiah. Ish-Bosheth said to Abner, “Why did you have sexual relations with my father’s slave woman?”

2 Samuel 5:13

After he came from Hebron, David took for himself more slave women and wives in Jerusalem. More sons and daughters were born to David.

1 Kings 11:3

He had seven hundred wives who were from royal families and three hundred slave women who gave birth to his children. His wives caused him to turn away from God.

1 Kings 4:8

These are the names of the twelve governors: Ben-Hur was governor of the mountain country of Ephraim.

2 Chronicles 11:21

Rehoboam loved Maacah more than his other wives and slave women. Rehoboam had eighteen wives and sixty slave women and was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Esther 2:14

In the evening she would go to the king’s palace, and in the morning she would return to another part of the women’s quarters. There she would be placed under the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch in charge of the slave women. The girl would not go back to the king again unless he was pleased with her and asked for her by name.

Daniel 5:3

So they brought the gold cups that had been taken from the Temple of God in Jerusalem. And the king and his royal guests, his wives, and his slave women drank from them.

Malachi 2:15

God made husbands and wives to become one body and one spirit for his purpose—so they would have children who are true to God. So be careful, and do not break your promise to the wife you married when you were young.

Matthew 2:6

‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are not just an insignificant village in Judah. A ruler will come from you who will be like a shepherd for my people Israel.’ ”

Joshua 24:30

They buried him in his own land at Timnath Serah, in the mountains of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

Joshua 24:33

And Eleazar son of Aaron died and was buried at Gibeah in the mountains of Ephraim, which had been given to Eleazar’s son Phinehas.

Judges 12:8

After Jephthah died, Ibzan from Bethlehem was a judge for Israel.

Judges 17:1

There was a man named Micah who lived in the mountains of Ephraim.

Judges 17:6

At that time Israel did not have a king, so everyone did what seemed right.

Judges 17:7

There was a young man who was a Levite from the city of Bethlehem in Judah who was from the people of Judah.

Judges 17:8

He left Bethlehem to look for another place to live, and on his way he came to Micah’s house in the mountains of Ephraim.

Judges 18:1

At that time Israel did not have a king. And at that time the tribe of Dan was still looking for a land where they could live, a land of their own. The Danites had not yet been given their own land among the tribes of Israel.

Judges 18:13

From there they traveled on to the mountains of Ephraim. Then they came to Micah’s house.

Judges 19:16

Finally, in the evening an old man came in from his work in the fields. His home was in the mountains of Ephraim, but now he was living in Gibeah. (The people of Gibeah were from the tribe of Benjamin.)

Judges 19:2

but she was unfaithful to him. She left him and went back to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah and stayed there for four months.

Judges 21:25

In those days Israel did not have a king. All the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes.

Judges 3:27

When he reached the mountains of Ephraim he blew the trumpet. The people of Israel heard it and went down from the hills with Ehud leading them.